Harini Calamur's Writings
This from the NYT today The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online, three executives in the information technology…
And one more goes off into the sunset. What a year it has been for Indian Culture -both classical & mass.. Here is a bit a wrote a couple of years ago on his birthday. Dev Saheb – the original Peter Pan…
20 years ago, every little road in Mumbai would have a ladies tailor. Women in the neighbourhood would go to him, flirt with him (most ladies tailors were pucca flirts) and get their clothes made – usually sari blouses, salwar kameezes, and…
So how will FDI affect him. Zero cost of land – (theoretically)… he probably has to pay bribes because he is squatting between the pavement and the road, blocking both. Bang opposite a station (Vile Parle) – en route for customers who…
The DNA column, and yours truly, got quoted in the NYT, India Ink section Since the Mumbai attacks, India has suffered numerous terrorism-related incidents, including but not limited to: a September 2009 car bombing in Kashmir; attacks in Maoist rebel-controlled areas in May…
And after 4 days when the terrorists terrorized, the media went ballistic and people watched a spectator sport – it ended today, 3 years ago. This morning I tried to look for the names of the police and the NSG men who…
My column in today’s DNA 26/11. A day three years ago, when the average Mumbaikar’s sense of relative security was ripped out. It isn’t that Mumbai was a haven of security and peace. Quite the contrary. The last two decades had been…
The trouble with the kind of churn that has been going on for the last 18 months, not just in India but worldwide, is that you (rather I) tend to lose faith in humanity… Your anti corruption leaders fudge bills, sportsmen fight…
This appeared in the DNA as what next for team Anna ..a team that seems to be drowning under the weight of its own publicity .. The last fortnight has been an interesting time for Team Anna. A series of incidents…
Heard this fantastic piece by Bunker Roy on Ted Talks. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf The other day was having a conversation with someone on why India doesn’t produce a Steve Jobs…And, just like Jobs designed all solutions based around intuitive usability, so has Bunker…